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A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women, relating the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of satirical vignettes, Gaskell sympathetically portrays changing small town customs and values in mid-Victorian England....

「僕はもとから野菊がだい好き。民さんも野菊が好き……」 永く後世に伝えていくべきこのみずみずしくせつない小説。何度もテレビドラマ、映画、アニメ化もされていますが、やはり原作にかなうものはないと思われます。 「自然で、淡泊で、可哀想で、美しくて、野趣があって（略）あんな小説ならば何百編よんでもよろしい」と夏目漱石も激賞した『野菊の墓』を、読者が物語を自分なりの解釈できるように、原文に忠実に、ナレーターの表現を極力抑えて仕上げました。完成度の高いオーディオブックとなりました。

A workhouse orphan, Oliver experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal underworld. His companions, a thief, a whore, a pickpocket, and a fence, are destined for gruesome ends, but Oliver emerges unscathed from the darkness of the underworld.

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sachs' tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of this astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.

作家を思わせる語り手の女性が、人生の折々に鮮烈に現われたトマトとの関わりを追想する、という趣向の短編。幼い頃、科学者だった父親と二人で出かけた地元近くの海水浴場に浮かんでいたトマト。「おばあちゃん」になった今では、猛暑のなか、孫が止めるのにも耳を貸さず、アーチ状の「トマトの林」を丹精込めて育てている。こうしたトマトはいったいどこからやってきたのか？
語り手にとってトマトは、男たちとの交際の記憶を幼時に齧った折の青ぐささと共に甦らせる不思議な存在だ。学生時代、初めてキスし、交わった男は農業大学の研究生。アステカ族が住む地域でトマトの原種を育成研究するため、「私」のもとを去り、メキシコへ渡った。一個のトマトをベッドに残して……。
南米アンデス山脈原産のトマトは、大航海時代にイタリア半島にもたらされたが、毒性が恐れられ、当初は観賞用だったとされる。「黄金の果実」を巡って、作家の奇想が冴えわたる作品。

One of Dickens' early works, Nicholas Nickleby combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity that is interspersed with Dickens' moving condemnation of society's mistreatment of children and the cruelty of the educational system. Young Nickleby struggles to seek his fortune in Victorian England, yet succeeds despite social injustice, in a story that mirrors Dickens' own rise from poverty to great success.

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

Here is a timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. The story of Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Toad, and their escapades, whether messing about on the river or poop-pooping in Toad's shiny new car, cannot fail to enchant.

Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love triangle.

爛尾楼（ランウェイロゥ）／廃墟マンションを美術館にせよ！ 芥川賞候補作。 美術館設計は建築家の夢。師の願いを叶えるべく、助手のレンは住民の立ち退きに奔走する。資本家令嬢Ｑと未完成の建物を買った人民の欲望は交差し、ドラマは思わぬ方向へ転がる。

明治・大正期の文学者、森鴎外の代表的な短編小説作品。本作が森鴎外の処女小説である。初出は「国民之友」［1890年（明治23年）］。初期の代表作であり、1884年から5年間のドイツ留学時の体験を下敷きにして書かれた。主人公、太田豊太郎はエリート官吏である。彼はドイツ留学中に舞姫エリスと出会い、二人で暮らし始める。しかし、そのことによって周囲から中傷され官職を辞することになる。やがて、豊太郎は、前途を案じる友人からの勧めに応じて、エリスとの別れを決意。事情を知り発狂した身重のエリスを残し、豊太郎は日本へと帰国する。近代文学の代表的なロマンチシズム溢れる作品である。

In this terrifying and hilarious prequel, we witness the genesis of the zombie plague in early 19th-century England. We watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a nave young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. We laugh as she begins her first clumsy training with nunchucks and katana swords and cry when her first blush with romance goes tragically awry.

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels". Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.

「鴻心霊学会」が発行している機関誌「ともしび」の中に、自殺した兄・実秋と、妻・鈴子の貧民崫時代の仲間三人が殺された事件への関与が疑われる南条宏通が一緒に写っている写真を見付け、愕然とする花菱孝冬。鈴子に相談することもできず、一人苦悩するが……。

クラスの女子たちが、タイムカプセルを埋めたらしい。6年3組のぼくは、親友のシンイチとヨモヤとともに、遠くの煙突の麓にある公園まで自転車で行ってみることにした――（「海の街の十二歳」）

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.